Games Like 7 Billion Humans

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Why similar: Programming 71.8% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Education 6.8%, Automation 2.7%, Simulation 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor to 7 Billion Humans, it shares the same humorous office setting and visual programming mechanics.

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Programming 74.3% ★, Automation 5.7%, Puzzle 5.5%, Logic 5.1%, Education 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep dive into hardware and assembly programming that captures the same satisfying 'logic puzzle' feel as the Zachtronics catalog.

The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Why similar: Programming 73.6% ★, Puzzle 7.4%, Automation 5.6%, Logic 4.9%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This hacking-themed game features a similar assembly-style programming language that rewards clever, efficient code.

Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Why similar: Programming 66% ★, Puzzle 11.5%, Automation 7.8%, Logic 5.4%, Simulation 4%

Why You'll Like It: This automation puzzle game focuses on building complex machines, offering a similar sense of accomplishment when your design finally works.

Zachtronics is back with an ambitious new design-based puzzle game. Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products!

Why similar: Programming 66.1% ★, Puzzle 14.7%, Logic 6.1%, Great Soundtrack 4.1%, Automation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic automation puzzle game that requires careful planning and logic to move chemicals through complex, multi-step processes.

Infinifactory is a sandbox puzzle game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infiniminer. Build factories that assemble products for your alien overlords, and try not to die in the process.

Why similar: Programming 64.2% ★, Puzzle 13%, Automation 8.6%, Simulation 4.8%, Logic 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D automation game challenges you to build assembly lines, mirroring the spatial logic required in 7 Billion Humans.

TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Why similar: Programming 82.5% ★, Puzzle 6.4%, Logic 3%, Simulation 2.5%, Education 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, difficult assembly programming game that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on raw logic and code optimization.

You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!

Why similar: Programming 73.8% ★, Education 11.3%, Puzzle 6.9%, Simulation 4.8%, Logic 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses visual programming to teach machine learning concepts in a lighthearted, accessible way.

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Programming 68.9% ★, Education 9.9%, Logic 7.7%, Puzzle 6.2%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: An educational journey that starts with simple logic gates and builds up to a fully functional computer, perfect for fans of low-level programming.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Programming 56.5% ★, Puzzle 21.7%, Logic 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: While not strictly programming, the game's core mechanic of rewriting the rules of the world feels like a logic-based puzzle experience.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Programming 80% ★, Automation 10.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation with colony building, allowing you to program robots to perform repetitive tasks for your settlement.

Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.

Why similar: Programming 68.7% ★, Education 9.2%, Automation 6.6%, Logic 5.9%, Puzzle 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of farming and Python-based programming that forces you to automate your tasks to succeed.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, The Signal State puts your logic skills to the test with complex puzzles inspired by modular synthesizers. Repair machines, rebuild an abandoned farm, and be part of a revolution that will change the fate of agriculture once and for all.

Why similar: Programming 63% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 9.7%, Automation 8.2%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modular synthesizer-inspired puzzle game that requires complex signal routing and logic to solve.

Assemble your robot squad, construct their AI and send them in the battle arena to see your strategy play out. Iterate, improve and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online.

Why similar: Programming 78.1% ★, Logic 6.3%, Simulation 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Education 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: You program the AI of your robot squad before the match starts, which perfectly captures the 'set it and watch it run' nature of 7 Billion Humans.

Manufactoria 2022 is a constructive puzzle game about pushing robots around. (It's okay, they don't complain.) Use simple parts to engineer solutions to open-ended problems, then rebuild 'em better! Take a company from your backyard to the soaring heights of success! How hard could it be?

Why similar: Programming 63.5% ★, Puzzle 9.3%, Logic 8.7%, Automation 8.4%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy puzzle game where you build machines to sort robots based on complex rules.

Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.

Why similar: Programming 71.9% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 6.3%, Education 5.3%, Great Soundtrack 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on circuit design and logic puzzles, requiring you to optimize your solutions for speed and space.

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Why similar: Programming 82.7% ★, Automation 6.8%, Education 3.4%, Puzzle 3.4%, Simulation 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based programming game where you write actual scripts to hack servers and automate your criminal empire.

Robo Instructus is a puzzle game in which players manoeuvre a robot by issuing instructions via a simple programming language. As players progress through the game they unlock new functions to overcome new puzzles, each of which can be solved in multiple ways.

Why similar: Programming 68.6% ★, Education 8.8%, Puzzle 8.5%, Logic 8%, Simulation 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on programming robots to navigate obstacles, emphasizing the same command-based logic as the seed game.

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Why similar: Programming 69.4% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Puzzle 8.1%, Education 7.9%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where you design hardware components, appealing to those who enjoy the engineering side of programming.

Use the MOLEK-SYNTEZ to create small molecules with various pharmacological effects from the comfort of your small Romanian apartment.

Why similar: Programming 67.2% ★, Puzzle 11.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Automation 6.6%, Indie 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A Zachtronics title that focuses on chemical synthesis through a unique, constrained programming language.

Algo Bot is puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis.

Why similar: Programming 78.4% ★, Puzzle 10.7%, Logic 5.8%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game where you guide a robot through a spaceship using a visual command-based programming interface.

MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.

Why similar: Programming 72.7% ★, Education 8.8%, Simulation 8%, Puzzle 6.6%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardware design game that tasks you with building a computer from the ground up using a Hardware Description Language.

A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Why similar: Programming 68.6% ★, Education 11.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Automation 5.5%, Logic 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based programming puzzle game that focuses on string manipulation and recursive logic.

Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! It’s time to engineer tomorrow’s kitchen, today!

Why similar: Programming 47.9% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Puzzle 12.3%, Automation 11.9%, Indie 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A resource management game where you design automated kitchens, requiring careful planning and logic to keep things running.

Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.

Why similar: Programming 72.1% ★, Simulation 9.2%, Puzzle 8.2%, Education 7%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build and program robots to solve various challenges, emphasizing creative logic and engineering.

Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Why similar: Programming 63.3% ★, Education 8.8%, Puzzle 7.1%, Logic 7.1%, Automation 6.7%

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

Why similar: Programming 60.9% ★, Education 9.6%, Puzzle 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Logic 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-based puzzle game that requires you to route signals and manage data flow efficiently.

Use real Python code to automate machines, robots, drones and more: Program self-driving vehicles; crack passwords; apply machine learning; automate logistics; use image processing to guide missiles. Gain real coding skills and solve exciting bite-sized programming challenges.

Why similar: Programming 63.9% ★, Education 10.4%, Logic 7.5%, Automation 7.3%, Puzzle 7%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the practical aspects of software engineering and automation in a sandbox environment.

Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Why similar: Programming 82.2% ★, Puzzle 10.5%, Simulation 7.3%

[the Sequence] is a logic construction puzzler.Let your mind be your guide: Lay down seven different kinds of modules as your roadblocks to get you (portrayed as a binary data point) to a sweet destination.Apply an out-of-the-box thinking to get you to the next level!

Why similar: Programming 69.2% ★, Automation 9.7%, Puzzle 9.5%, Logic 9%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation game where you use modules to move and transform binary data.

Alan's Automaton Workshop is an open-ended programming puzzle game. Start a new business with Alan Turing and his groundbreaking innovation: the Turing Machine. Build unique automatons, and solve all kinds of problems from clients.

Why similar: Programming 61.4% ★, Education 12.1%, Puzzle 7.3%, Automation 7.2%, Logic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed automation game that uses a unique programming language to solve mechanical puzzles.

Great Permutator is a puzzle. Hard and tricky. One in which you will have to build a complex system of conveyors and various devices so that the colored boxes can travel across the factory and arrive at right places and in right order. If you are into clever engineering puzzles, this game is for you.

Why similar: Programming 65.2% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Automation 8.4%, Logic 6.5%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A conveyor-belt automation game that challenges your ability to organize and direct items through a factory.

Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.

Why similar: Programming 63.7% ★, Education 9.1%, Automation 7.4%, Puzzle 7.2%, Simulation 5.3%

In a future where food is the ultimate symbol of status, you are a recipe programming technician for a ruthless aristocracy. Create, test and optimize your culinary machines in this deliciously dark zach-like!

Why similar: Programming 64.9% ★, Automation 9.1%, Logic 7.8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Simulation 5%

A single bit of computer memory became sentient and decided to escape from digital into the real world. Explore RAM, modify bytes and hack machine code and CPU registers to set it free.

Why similar: Programming 64.5% ★, Simulation 8.6%, Education 8%, Puzzle 7%, Logic 6.7%

You land on a frozen planet in a tiny rocket with a robot inside. Harvest and combine materials to discover new ones. Use visual programming to make the robot do the tiresome work for you. Slowly build a gang of self-sustaining robot workers and watch them terraform the planet.

Why similar: Programming 64.7% ★, Education 13.2%, Puzzle 8.1%, Automation 8.1%, Simulation 3.6%

Master the most counter-intuitive logic in existence. Created by the researchers who defined Quantum Literacy, explore an open-ended puzzle world where you craft real quantum algorithms, solve 500+ challenges, hack other players asynchronously, and gain insights textbooks can’t provide.

Why similar: Programming 59.9% ★, Education 11.5%, Logic 8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Automation 7%

Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.

Why similar: Programming 61.6% ★, Education 12.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Automation 7.8%, Simulation 4.7%

Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!

Why similar: Programming 58.3% ★, Education 13.7%, Puzzle 8.3%, Logic 7.4%, Simulation 5.7%

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.

Why similar: Programming 60.3% ★, Education 10.8%, Logic 8.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Automation 6%

Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game. The year is 1984. All you got is a Comet 64 home computer and the operator's manual it came with.

Why similar: Programming 66% ★, Education 9.4%, Puzzle 7.9%, Logic 4.8%, Simulation 4.6%

Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?

Why similar: Programming 72.8% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Logic 9.8%, Automation 3.9%, Indie 1.8%

Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine. BAFTA Scotland Game Winner.

Why similar: Programming 72.2% ★, Logic 10.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Great Soundtrack 4.2%, Indie 2.8%

Word Factori is a word-building game where your only resource is the letter "i". Build a chain of factories to bend, rotate, reflect, and merge "i" into more complex letters. Discover secret letter recipes, unlock hidden word art, and optimize your factory chains for high scores.

Why similar: Programming 66% ★, Puzzle 9.2%, Logic 8.8%, Automation 8.2%, Simulation 5%

Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you

Why similar: Programming 69.5% ★, Education 10.1%, Puzzle 9.2%, Great Soundtrack 4.9%, Indie 4.4%

A rich and challenging physics-based puzzle /logic /construction /programming game! Master ballistics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical and nuclear reactions, use automation bricks, build structures, machines, vehicles, produce power, solve puzzles, pierce the fog and defeat CHR$!

Why similar: Programming 67.4% ★, Automation 11.1%, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 7.4%, Simulation 2.9%

Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.

Why similar: Programming 66.4% ★, Education 15.5%, Automation 9.4%, Simulation 5.6%, Funny 3.1%

Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.

Why similar: Programming 63% ★, Education 11.4%, Logic 7.3%, Automation 6%, Simulation 5.6%

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.5%, Great Soundtrack 27.6%, Indie 11.8%, Satire 8.8% ★, Singleplayer 3.5%

SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!

Why similar: Programming 67.3% ★, Puzzle 9.4%, Logic 8.4%, Automation 8%, Simulation 3.6%

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Puzzle 27.1%, Education 24.4%, Great Soundtrack 19.3%, Simulation 17%, Indie 5.4%

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 29.6%, Puzzle 24%, Logic 22.4%, Simulation 15.3%, Indie 6.1%

The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?

Why similar: Programming 83.5% ★, Puzzle 11.3%, Logic 3.5%, Simulation 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.7%, Satire 27.1% ★, Great Soundtrack 18.6%, Indie 13.6%, Funny 8.1%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Programming 64.4% ★, Education 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, Logic 7.1%, Simulation 6.4%

Move Code Lines is a game where you fix programs and make them print needed output. But the only way you can achieve that is to change the order of lines in those programs, and set custom input.

Why similar: Programming 64.6% ★, Education 10.8%, Automation 7.4%, Logic 6%, Puzzle 4.9%

Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!

Why similar: Programming 70.5% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, Logic 9.8%, Education 3.2%, Indie 2.8%

Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!

Why similar: Programming 66.5% ★, Education 13.6%, Puzzle 7.9%, Simulation 6%, Indie 2.7%

A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!

Why similar: Programming 69% ★, Education 10.3%, Logic 7.7%, Puzzle 6.5%, Simulation 5%

Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.

Why similar: Programming 65.4% ★, Logic 9.9%, Puzzle 9.9%, Automation 8.1%, Simulation 5.7%